I have been wanting to read this book for the last few years, and I picked it up because of the Goodreads reading challenge bookmark. I started this on the 15th of February and DNF'ed it on page 147 on February 20. I could not get into this book and I was just fed up with the main character. I also hate the writing style but since it is translated, I don't know if it is the author's writing or the translation.
This book won a major award and was pitched as a mystery thriller. There was nothing mysterious or thrilling about the first half of the book. It was mainly about a woman who lives in a isolated area in the winter and she has two neighbors. One dies from choking on a bone and our main character calls him Big Foot. She creates names for things and doesn't use their actuall names. The neighbor who got her when Big Foot was found, she named him Oddball.
They go into Big Foots house and they proceed to put him into a suit. They also see traps and a animal head on the table. When they leave to wait for the police, Janina takes the animal head home with her and she buries the bones that were with it, but not the head.
She cares about animals more than people and she is a total Karen when it comes to the smallest rule breaking, even the police are over her constant whining. She also tries to tie every bad thing to astrology and the planets being in line and houses are the reasons why major historical events happend.
She also thinks that the deaths are occuring because the animals are behind it. This gave me major animal farm vibes and it just gave me the ick even more. There was also a part where she sees a woman who is pregnant and there is a thought about miscarriage, which pissed me off.
I just do not see the point in this story and what the hype is.
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